Newport Class Tank Landing Ship
Newport-class tank-landing ships are an improved class of American tank-landing ship (LST), intended to provide substantial advantages over their World War II-era predecessors. Of the twenty completed, four were sunk as targets, four were retained as inactive reserves and the rest were sold to foreign navies.
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